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July 24th, 2019 at 3:30:15 PM permalink
I don't know anyone under 50 that owns a Harley or thinks he is a biker. Even at the River Run, almost all the young people ride Japanese bikes. Even the big clubs have few young members. I can't think of the last time I saw a Hells Angel under 50.
Ride a faster, more agile and cheaper bike or ride with Grandpa. Tuff choice.
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July 24th, 2019 at 3:51:33 PM permalink
Quote: Joeman

Of course, most of the guys I know actually enjoy being with their wives.



Or so they say, that's the public
persona they present. Thru my
wife I'm privy to all the behind the
scenes info. Not a pretty story.
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July 25th, 2019 at 5:20:59 AM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

Thru my
wife I'm privy to 𝒂𝒍𝒍 the behind the
scenes info. Not a pretty story.




really? 𝒂𝒍𝒍?

there's what - 50 million wives in the U.S.
that's quite amazing - the breadth of your knowledge and edification......................................... 😃😃 😃
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July 25th, 2019 at 10:59:03 AM permalink
deleted. Not funny, not respectful.
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July 25th, 2019 at 11:36:24 AM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

There are only two kinds of men.
Those who own Harley's, and
those who want to own them
but can't because:

1 They're too terrified
2 Their wife won't let them
3 They can't afford it

So they whine and mock those who
do own them. There really is no middle
ground, it's one or the other.



That would be four kinds of men, not two. You're the first person I've ever encountered who cared this deeply about which category he belonged to.
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July 25th, 2019 at 12:30:19 PM permalink
Quote: lilredrooster

really? 𝒂𝒍𝒍?



All the people we know that we're
friends with. Who else would I be
referring to.
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July 25th, 2019 at 1:26:33 PM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

All the people we know that we're
friends with. Who else would I be
referring to.




oh, so the situation with all of the people you know is definitely representative of the situation with all other people - it's going to be the same for them too

got it

nice logic..................................................................😃 😃😃
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July 25th, 2019 at 1:35:09 PM permalink
I think that the problem is that the younger guys imagine their pops as a Harley guy, so they feel like they need to get to that "dad" stage before they purchase one.
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July 25th, 2019 at 1:39:29 PM permalink
Quote: RyanLoften99

I think that the problem is that the younger guys imagine their pops as a Harley guy, so they feel like they need to get to that "dad" stage before they purchase one.



My guess is that younger people just don't have enough disposable money to waste on problem prone junk. They probably need something reliable.
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July 25th, 2019 at 1:58:12 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

My guess is that younger people just don't have enough disposable money to waste on problem prone junk. They probably need something reliable.



I'm not sure if newer model Harleys are as problem prone as older models were. I believe it was Honda who actually built in "extra vibration" on one or more of their bikes to simulate vibration of a Harley-like feel. Odd maybe, but then car makers like Ford built in sound to enhance the growl in Mustang 5.0s.

Precise engineering of Japanese bikes apparently can't produce enough vibration on their own.
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July 25th, 2019 at 4:26:38 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

My guess is that younger people just don't have enough disposable money to waste on problem prone junk. They probably need something reliable.



You're thinking of the old Harley.
The last 20 years they have improved
greatly. I have a 2007 Road King
and have never had a problem other
than replacing tires and oil changes.
45K miles on it and it looks like new.
It is almost exactly like this one:

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July 26th, 2019 at 4:12:18 PM permalink
PG if you read this you should plan your next few trips around getting onto all of these bridges

https://www.90min.com/posts/6296525-weekly-article?noads&art-id=72HnA0vsrZPMSz3k3CqGC6&fpCode=
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July 28th, 2019 at 2:14:50 AM permalink
Quote: GWAE

PG if you read this you should plan your next few trips around getting onto all of these bridges

https://www.90min.com/posts/6296525-weekly-article?noads&art-id=72HnA0vsrZPMSz3k3CqGC6&fpCode=

I root for him trying the Root bridge, during a hurricane of course.
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July 29th, 2019 at 2:21:21 PM permalink
love the great movie car chase scenes - this one - from the movie Bullitt is IMHO the greatest ever
muscle vs. muscle - a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 fastback versus a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum
on the hills of San Fran
the action doesn't really start until 3:25

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July 29th, 2019 at 2:33:03 PM permalink
Quote: lilredrooster

love the great movie car chase scenes - this one - from the movie Bullitt is IMHO the greatest ever
muscle vs. muscle - a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 fastback versus a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum
on the hills of San Fran
the action doesn't really start until 3:25



I immediately turn off any movie that has a car chase scene that lasts longer than 30 seconds.
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July 29th, 2019 at 2:39:50 PM permalink
My favorite cinema car chase is in Ronin.

Quote: DRich


I immediately turn off any movie that has a car chase scene that lasts longer than 30 seconds.



Why?
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July 29th, 2019 at 2:43:32 PM permalink
Quote: TigerWu


Why?



Because car chase scenes are just time fillers. The plot could be advanced equally with a 15 second car chase.
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:15:26 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

Because car chase scenes are just time fillers. The plot could be advanced equally with a 15 second car chase.



There are a few that took place in Pittsburgh. They are speeding down a road and make a left. Now they are on another road that is actually 5 miles away. It infuriates me. I think the same thing happened in the Jason Bourne movie.
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:20:52 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

Because car chase scenes are just time fillers. The plot could be advanced equally with a 15 second car chase.



Be interesting to see how long most movies would be if you started cutting everything that doesn't advance the plot.
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:21:02 PM permalink
What are the odds. Talk about cause and effect. The man could have done anything differently and would have avoided it. Anyways, locally 2 line highway. Car is going one way and hits a deer. Car coming the other direction, deer goes airborne through the window and kills driver. Could have stopped at last stop sign 1/4 of a second longer and would have lived.



https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/07/28/deer-through-windshield-route-68/
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Quote: GWAE

What are the odds. Talk about cause and effect. The man could have done anything differently and would have avoided it. Anyways, locally 2 line highway. Car is going one way and hits a deer. Car coming the other direction, deer goes airborne through the window and kills driver. Could have stopped at last stop sign 1/4 of a second longer and would have lived.



https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/07/28/deer-through-windshield-route-68/



My guess is that he was a healthy man that worked out and watched his diet. Serves him right. We can all go at anytime so just enjoy what you want.
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:39:48 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

Because car chase scenes are just time fillers. The plot could be advanced equally with a 15 second car chase.



Because there's nothing new in
chase scenes that we haven't
seen 12 times. Ever see how they
film them? You'll never watch
another one..
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:40:47 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

Because car chase scenes are just time fillers. The plot could be advanced equally with a 15 second car chase.



The plot of almost any movie in history could be completely covered in about five minutes or less.

You could always just fast forward through the chase instead of turning the movie off.
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:42:55 PM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

Because there's nothing new in
chase scenes that we haven't
see 12 times. Ever see how they
film them? You'll never watch
another one..



I usually enjoy car chase scenes in Bond movies. Trying to think of one I didn't.
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:47:09 PM permalink
Quote: EvenBob

Ever see how they
film them? You'll never watch
another one..



Yes. They strap cameras to cars and drive around.

Why would that make never want to watch another one?
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July 29th, 2019 at 3:57:20 PM permalink
Quote: DRich

My guess is that he was a healthy man that worked out and watched his diet. Serves him right. We can all go at anytime so just enjoy what you want.



Ain't that the truth. That is why I started taking vacations. I went years without going anywhere then said F this.
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July 29th, 2019 at 4:03:45 PM permalink
Quote: TigerWu

The plot of almost any movie in history could be completely covered in about five minutes or less.

You could always just fast forward through the chase instead of turning the movie off.



I disagree. If the director is foolish enough to put a long chase seen in the movie, he is most likely filling it with other worthless crap. Turn it off.

BTW, I haven't watched a new movie in the past five years. I am not much of a movie person to begin with, they are just time wasters to me and I can usually find more enjoyable ways to waste my time (drinking and gambling). I am going to a theater on Thurdsay to see a pre-release of a movie my wife wants to see. The Art of Racing in the Rain. She absolutely loved that book.
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July 29th, 2019 at 4:47:07 PM permalink
Quote: GWAE

There are a few that took place in Pittsburgh. They are speeding down a road and make a left. Now they are on another road that is actually 5 miles away. It infuriates me. I think the same thing happened in the Jason Bourne movie.

What I recall of the Las Vegas chase scene in the Jason Bourne movie is that it took what seemed like 20 minutes to drive at full speed up Las Vegas Blvd. from the Aria to ParisLV. Then they hit a ramp at Bally's, flew into the air, and (and after an amazing but unseen flight) crashed landed into the Riviera, approximately a mile and a half away.

I recall taking a bus tour of sites on Oahu, when the driver/tour guide talked about some of the TV shows that had been filmed there. He noted that it amused/irritated the locals to see Tom Selleck (as Magnum, PI) driving down a road, going around a bend, and having the new camera angle reveal that he was then driving at a location on a completely different island! That Ferarri was an impressive vehicle!
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July 29th, 2019 at 4:47:12 PM permalink
Quote: rxwine

I usually enjoy car chase scenes in Bond movies. Trying to think of one I didn't.



The motorcycle chase in "Tomorrow Never Dies" was pretty bad... but it was a motorcycle after all.
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July 29th, 2019 at 4:49:57 PM permalink
Quote: rxwine

I usually enjoy car chase scenes in Bond movies. Trying to think of one I didn't.



Any modern chase seen would end
in the first 15 seconds in the real
world. That's why they're so boring.
They were actually better 40 years
ago when they were more realistic.
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July 29th, 2019 at 5:01:33 PM permalink
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PG if you read this you should plan your next few trips around getting onto all of these bridges

https://www.90min.com/posts/6296525-weekly-article?noads&art-id=72HnA0vsrZPMSz3k3CqGC6&fpCode=


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July 29th, 2019 at 5:21:16 PM permalink
another great blast from the past car chase - the 7 Ups - filmed in NYC
same bad guy driver as in Bullitt
a 1973 Pontiac Grand Ville sedan versus a 1973 Pontiac Ventura Custom Sprint coupe

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July 29th, 2019 at 5:23:45 PM permalink
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I’m afraid of heights.



nice to hear from you. Seems like you have been away for a while.

Are you afraid of heights or afraid of falling from something high?
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July 29th, 2019 at 5:46:56 PM permalink
I haven't watched it in years, but I loved the chase from The French Connection. It helps that it was partially filmed in my old neighborhood and its fun to see some of the old stores again. Of course, the sequence is all messed up as you see 77th st, then 69th st and then 82 st, but only someone from the neighborhood would notice.

Neither holds a candle to Dennis Weaver in Duel, imo.
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July 29th, 2019 at 6:29:36 PM permalink
Quote: Face

Different strokes. I could watch Vanishing Point and The Wraith on a loop, though it's become less necessary with a thousand hours of nordic rally on YouTube.



The Wraith, without Google very few would remember this movie.

Pre Crackhead Charlie.

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July 29th, 2019 at 6:56:02 PM permalink
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nice to hear from you. Seems like you have been away for a while.

Are you afraid of heights or afraid of falling from something high?


Not away, there just hasn’t been much posted lately that interests me. I read this thread every week or two.

I’m not really sure what the fear is, I guess both is the correct answer.
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July 29th, 2019 at 8:56:49 PM permalink
I usually ff through the sex scenes that drag it out over a minute. They could cut that in half and make it more realistic.
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July 29th, 2019 at 9:14:09 PM permalink
Quote: petroglyph

I usually ff through the sex scenes .



Me too. Boring, and embarrassing for
the actors doing them because it can't
be done in just one take. As an aside,
Frank Sinatra hated doing movies
and directors hated him because he
refused to do more than the first
take. Frank thought movies were
dumb and easy and he only did it
for the money. Singing, that was
hard. He would do a song over and
over for a record till he got it right.
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Not away, there just hasn’t been much posted lately that interests me. I read this thread every week or two.

I’m not really sure what the fear is, I guess both is the correct answer.

Admit it, you just miss Nathan.
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July 29th, 2019 at 9:29:20 PM permalink
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Admit it, you just miss Nathan.



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July 29th, 2019 at 9:36:44 PM permalink
Depression is a serious issue and shouldn't be ignored. Would you like the number to the suicide hotline?
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You caught me! Bring back Nathan, Dean, Kentry, LS2 and whatever other troll socks she had in her closet of nut jobs.



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July 29th, 2019 at 10:40:01 PM permalink
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Depression is a serious issue and shouldn't be ignored. Would you like the number to the suicide hotline?


Yikes that’s dark even for you buddy.
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July 30th, 2019 at 12:31:10 AM permalink
Quote: lilredrooster

love the great movie car chase scenes - this one - from the movie Bullitt is IMHO the greatest ever

car chases used to be filmed at FIFTEEN mph with cuts to speedometer readings taken when the rear tires where on rollers. And Ronald Regan was in a film where the car chase scene WAS the primary plot development vehicle. Featured Lee Marvin.
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July 30th, 2019 at 12:47:08 AM permalink
Quote: billryan

I haven't watched it in years, but I loved the chase from The French Connection.

The teamster who missed his stop-mark in that chase scene should have been paid a bonus.

Best one might have been that director who told the crew the bank robbery scene was just for timing and blocking purposes, when in fact it was for real and no one in the bank had actually been told it was a movie; it was real customers, not extras. And when the bank manager hit the alarm button, the resulting car chase was real too, since the director had not notified the police at all.

Nor were there any external indications of a movie being filmed, so reaction of passersby was real.
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July 30th, 2019 at 1:57:21 AM permalink
Quote: billryan

I haven't watched it in years, but I loved the chase from The French Connection.



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July 30th, 2019 at 2:26:45 AM permalink
Quote: PokerGrinder

Yikes that’s dark even for you buddy.

Just making sure you are not in a dark place now that Nathan is gone.

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July 30th, 2019 at 6:53:39 AM permalink
Quote: TigerWu

The plot of almost any movie in history could be completely covered in about five minutes or less.

You could always just fast forward through the chase instead of turning the movie off.



If I think a movie has an interesting premise, I often just read the Wiki.
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